Is it summer yet? J'ai hâte à l'été.

This past week, I supplied in FIVE different schools, at SIX  DIFFERENT GRADE LEVELS, in TWO different languages, for TWO different employers, in SEVEN different subjects areas. I replaced a literacy lead, a principal, a resource teacher,  a Grade 5 French Immersion teacher, and Grade 1-6 teachers in French schools.  It rained four days in a row, so I was able to say "Piove oggi!" thereby giving a one minute, third language lesson, teaching them that it meant "It's raining!' in Italian. Friday, there was zero rain, so I taught them the negative, ''No piove oggi!"  I am tired.  I don't often want to admit that. My week explains how I came upon the following gems, which I collected, however, over the last thirty days.

KINDERGARTEN/MATERNELLE:

-Our scissors are in our POOCHES!

Bentley: I accidentally ate three pictures I was cutting out.
Ava: That is RIDICULOUS! You don't EAT paper.

-La fée des dents m'a laissée des cents.  J'achète une bicyclette au printemps!"

-Avec un prénom anglais, la petite Gwen à l'école française, était étonnée que je me rappelais de son nom. Je lui ai demandée si elle était anglaise.  Sa réponse? Je suis née les deux!

-Es-tu la mère à Ti-Guy?

 PREMIÈRE ANNÉE/GRADE ONE:

- I caught a thousand fish this weekend!

-You're here, Mme? YEAH!"

- Red haired Jacob - "If I were a bread, I'd be a GINGERBREAD!"

-While constructing a bridge in class with paper cups and Popsicle sticks, Taylor and Tyler informed me, "WE are like the GENIUSES!"

-My Dad eats STALE cheesies.

-The teacher told the kids to go their mats, which is where they sit on the floor to be given instructions.  One vocal little one, "You heard the MAN! Get to your mats!"

DEUXIÈME ANNÉE/GRADE TWO:

-Isabelle m'a dit que j'étais "DISGUSTING" et "GROSS!"

En écriture - "Les femmes ont du caractère."

Lors d'un jeu d'équipe, Noah proclame, "Tout le monde va me tanner pour être avec eux!"

Gabrielle, à un autre à la bibliothèque, "C'est ben de valeur, tu es à MA place!"

Marc-André, lisant en bon acadien, "Les chevaliers qui parcourions les champs...!" C'était écrit "parcouraient."  MPR (MOT POUR RIRE!)

Tom - in Grade Two, to Kelly, in Kindergarten, in line while waiting for the bus:

Tom- Let me pass you.
Kelly- NO!
Tom - Come on... let me pass.
Kelly- NO!
Tom - I'll give you FIVE bucks!

TROISIÈME ANNÉE/GRADE THREE:

To his teacher - I think my meds have kicked in!

MY MEDS? A gorgeous, sunny Saturday!!!

In closing, I want to share this English second language writing assignment I gave to a Grade Six class yesterday.  I was touched by this student's candour.  May we ALL tell our mothers this Mother's Day, what they t-r-u-l-y mean to us, and hug them a lot. Make sure the hug lasts SEVEN seconds!!!

JOYEUSE FÊTE DES MÈRES